Travelers with a focus on Orthodox Christian rituals, processions, and architecture travel to Poland and Ukraine around 1930. With street views of Eastern Europe between the wars, and with a visit to the construction of the first Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, later destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the postwar era.
Poland; Warsaw, Poland; Ukraine; Dnipro, Ukraine; Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine; Soviet Union
Production_date
circa 1930
Resolution
5120 x 3840
Scanner
Prelinger Archives
Sound
silent
Source_collection
Geoff Turner Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection
Source_collection_description
Films acquired from Geoff Turner, Terra Linda, California, Friday, September 16, 2024. Collection consists of home movies, educational and industrial films, film elements on travelogues, and erotica (stag films).
Home movies collected and held by Prelinger Archives. Items in this collection come from various sources: from members of families responsible for their making, collectors and dealers, and institutions donating collections to the Archives. The collection includes predominantly 16mm and 8mm home movies plus sizeable holdings in Super 8, and focuses on films made in North America or by North Americans traveling throughout the world.
Tags
parades; religious marches; Orthodoxy; holy week; devotional procession; Orthodox banners; Orthodox Christianity; Polish language signage; main streets; 1920s clothing; 1930s clothing; 1920s cars; Poland; Warsaw; Frederic Chopin statue; sculptor Wacław Szymanowski; monument; fountain; Soviet Union; Soviet Ukraine; Russian Orthodox church; Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant; Soviet constructivist architecture; Modern design; constructivism; Modernism; dams; Eastern Europe; manual labor; dam construction; laborers; women's labor; women working in construction; woman shifting gravel pile; greenhouses; orchards; farms; flowers; rural; travel and exploration